{"id":1186,"date":"2008-08-04T00:08:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T23:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1186"},"modified":"2013-11-20T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:14:39","slug":"photography-on-a-grey-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/photography-on-a-grey-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography on a grey day"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

More rain today, and although it eventually stopped mid afternoon the light remained poor. No hint of yesterday's sunshine. On days like this you have to make do with the little light that's available, which means long exposures and a steady hand (or in this case, a tripod).<\/p>\n

I started out by taking some shots of the sea. The numbers indicate the aperture and shutter speed used. I was aiming to get a reasonable depth of field, and to smooth out the flow of the waves.<\/p>\n

f\/20 – 1\/15s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

f\/32 – 1\/4s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The technique isn't ideal for birds in flight, plus I was wary of getting too much spray on the camera (I must get a protective filter for the lens), so although I took a few shots of some black-headed gulls<\/a> on the beach, I decided to head off to the local pond where I was fairly sure to find some ducks (and generally calmer conditions). This first shot is the general scene, and again I used a relatively slow exposure to make the best of the available light.<\/p>\n

f\/13 – 1\/20s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Finally I turned to the ducks which, helpfully, were dozing on the grass at the edge of the pond. For these I made use of flash (so much easier).<\/p>\n

f\/9 – 1\/200s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There are about a dozen shots from today at the beginning of the Rottingdean<\/a> album. <\/p>\n

Camera note: all the shots here taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, with the exception of the pond. For that I used the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044,1003,989],"tags":[220,246,136],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","category-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-pond","tag-rottingdean","tag-sea","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t